That ‘Blue Shape’ is definitely Lake Superior and the green area coming up from the lower left (but not reaching the green dot where the beam is coming from) is the Keweenaw Peninsula. (pronounced “KEY wuh naw” despite the spelling)

The beam could be a laser beam, but I suspect it’s the green energy that the Sarnothi use so much.

You’re welcome. The town I grew up in is Okemos (OH kuh mus) and almost no one pronounces it correctly, so I sort of have a thing about that. Incidentally, it was named after Chief Okemos, a Chippewa chief who fought with the Americans in (I think) the French and Indian wars. The school teams and the marching band are known as Chieftains and no one has yet tried to complain that this is disrespectful to Native-Americans.

i highly doubt that a single person could produce that amount of energy – nope, its got to be combined attack from the sar’teri echos. the big question is, who or what is the target, the refugee camp? or maybe *gulp* the car, to take out pihl and selkie, an echo and a potential, both on the ‘wrong’ side as far as the sar´teri are concerned. and i can totally see them wanting to ‘take care’ of selkie before she grows up+becomes powerful and ends up following in her moms foot steps.

if that is Lake Superior, then that is could be the location of the Refugee camp. though, if i remember correctly, DaveB said that the camp was in a small lake, NOT a big one like Superior or one of the other Great Lakes… and if that is correct, then that is NOT from the refugee camp, so now it looks like the cold war with the Sarnothi has just heated up!

that, or DaveB could be just playing with us and it’s gonna be just a huge fireworks display of it being the 1000th comic next strip??

Laser beam: NO… i’m pretty sure that the physics of “light” would prevent the beam from deflecting that much, that soon… however, if it were a PARTICLE Beam weapon, and it’s going from water to air??… i’d say MAYBE… and then again, if it were under outside CONTROL, like Pohl did when he was telling the bedtime story to his kids, of Pinky and The Brain, then that beam could be taking the EXACT path that it’s originator WANTED it to go in… the World may never know…

It’s in Lake Superior. Back in 221, Theo pointed out that a family fishing trip was ruined by the ‘Protect our Trout’ act that outlawed all fishing on Lake Superior, which was a direct result of the fishermen catching and killing the Sar’Teri.

that is defidently from the Sarnothi Capital city.
5 possibilities
1. lightshow to proclaim, “we are here”.
2. Over kill reaction to a boat invading Sarnothi “Air” space.
3. Declaration of War against Humanity, by shooting down either satellites or the international space station.
4. Carving a message into the Moon.
5. Destroying the moon so only the Sarnothi water benders will have control of the tides.

6: misses or overkill shots from one faction to/against another faction of the fighting in Sarnoth… you know, side A shoots at building X but for some reason, it misses… Where does the beam weapon GO?… well chances are for some shots at least, it could come out of the water into the air before fully dissipating, and we see it as “illegal fireworks” from some ex-fisherman on the water, and is ignored… when in reality, we (now) know that it’s a government cover-up. i guess the whole “It was swamp-gas” and “weather balloons” cover stories are pretty well used up and not plausible anymore, so they switched to “illegal fireworks” now…

Your list is missing “lenticular clouds.” They often look very much like UFOs from the 50s and 60s. Other than that it was a nicely summed list of excuses for Area 51. Now I’ma gonna put muh tin foil hat back on; dang revenuers are sniffin’ at muh still, again.

Sarnothi Resonance doesn’t work like traditional energy.
Resonance works like arcane magic.
You can write a rune in the air, chant a little,
And boom, instant forcefield air bubble.
Meaning with resonance you could easily make
a destructive beam that could suddenly change direction multiple times.

If you do that, I, I, … I don’t know what I’ll do, but it won’t be pretty. You are one of the very few web comic artistes, who have used that trope to reveal valid feels. E.g. Selkie and her dreams about Truck as ….a truck. You wouldn’t do that to us,… You wouldn’t dare.

Hmm, I like this idea a little bit
maybe sophie could be an extra spinoff series.
Whenever something really strange or stressfull happens to Selkie,
Sophie wakes up in bed and we get one or two extra comics
about how Sophie reacts to her strange dream.